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Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers and Their Signature Works

Two of the greatest jazz composers were Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967). This exhibition examines two of their most ubiquitous pieces—"Caravan" (1936) composed by Ellington ...
NPR

Duke Ellington: 'The Duke at His Best'

A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: You're listening to one of the most familiar compositions and one of the most familiar sounds in all of American music: Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' ...
NME

Watch Nandi Bushell deliver “most difficult cover she has ever made”

12-year-old Nandi Bushell has dropped another drum cover, declaring this one as “the most difficult cover [she] has ever made”. This time the young prodigy covered Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and ...
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Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composers

Online exhibit examining two jazz standards, each one its author's most-recorded piece: Caravan, written in 1936 by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol, and Take the 'A' Train, composed in 1941 by Billy ...